Last Chance IPA | Weyerbacher Brewing Co.

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Weyerbacher Brewing Company donates a portion of the proceeds from the sale of every drop of Last Chance IPA to small, local animal rescue organizations. These shelters offer dogs, cats and other pets their last chance to find a new home.
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This is cloudy and light amber in color and body, with minimal head after the two minute surge. Nose is herbal and pine and citrus hops.

Flavor is nice and moderately bitter and kind of mellow. Not much balance, but by no means overpowering either. A bit weak in the texture and could probably stand a touch more carbonation. Still, it is easy drinking and decently tasty. A bit of a sleepy IPA, maybe more of an APA, but it has a nice aftertaste and is sessionable. Worth a try.

12 oz. bottle poured into a pint glass.
L---Hazy, golden with a nice white head that fades without much lacing.
S---Smells like a piney hopbomb. Some citrus is present also.
T---Strong hops flavor gives it a grapefruit, lemon & pine taste.
F---Quenching & wet. nice carbonation gives a little fizz to it.
O---An excellent IPA. Weyerbacher hits another home run for me.

Poured from a 12-oz bottle into pint glass in September 2017. Packaged date of 8/7/2017 on the bottle, and drank less than 1 week after purchase.

Appearance: Deep gold body with thick light-tan head. Beer is a bit cloudy. Head is thick, and leaves a nice lacing on the glass.

Smell: Aroma filled with a strong hops aroma, and includes grapefruit, pepper, other citrus, and pine smells.

Taste: There is a noticeable hops flavor, as expected from an American IPA. There is good bite from the hops along with other flavors like citrus, but the hops bitterness is not overpowering. This is not as bitter as some other American IPAs, and there is a little sweetness. The aftertaste provides a variety of flavors over time. Not overly bitter or hoppy, and has a nice balance.

Had on tap. Pours clear, copper in color with 1/4 inch head. Taste is grapefruit rind and a bit of breadiness. Bitter, medium bodied and moderate carbonation. Makes for an average to slightly below average American IPA. Not a bad beer, but does not stick out in the wealth of great IPAs available these days.

The appearance was a nice looking hazy orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dies at a nice pace and left a decent somewhat foamy lacing. The smell had a combination of spicy to pine to grapefruity goodness. There was a light dry but bittersweet aftertaste that lead to a fairly decent dry sweet finish. On the palate, this one sat at/about a light to medium on the body with a fairly good sessionability running about it. The carbonation was sharp enough for the AIPA style and was good to me. Overall, good AIPA well worthy of having again.

Pours an amber, copper golden color with sediments and a thin layer of film on top. There's minimal lacing on the glass edge as you drink. Earthy, tropical fruits hit the nose strong with an undertone of caramel sweetness. The tongue follows the nose pretty well with earthy, tropical fruits and some astringency up front, mellowing into buttery, biscuit malts and finishing crisp with lingering malt and hop bitterness. The mouthfeel of this one is medium bodied with active carbonation and a bit of chewiness.

Overall this is a pleasant AIPA that's pretty drinkable (although perhaps a bit astringent) and complex with some earthy tones. This is my second brew from Weyerbacher and so far I'm pretty impressed with their offerings. I look forward to trying more. Cheers!

New Weyerbacher Beer Sunday (Week 626) continues at Chez Woody! We have achieved the kick-off of New Beer Sunday (Week 626) & I am using the occasion to kick-off my long-awaited & much-needed horizontal of Weyerbacher B.C. beers. I have a LOT of their beers in my Bottle Backlog and it may take several days until they are depleted. Enjoy the ride!

Wow! One of the advantages to day drinking & reviewing is the access to natural light. This one is filled with floaties & loads of lees on the punt. The bottle reads: "Packaged 11/22/16" so it may well be by design. The only way to find out is with a Pop! of the cap, followed by the gentlest pour possible. I briefly considered using a coffee filter, but that is a) cheating & b) not really a test of my pouring powers. It worked out as there was the slightest of haze, but it required an in-glass swirl to raise two-plus fingers of foamy, rocky, bone-white head with limited retention, leaving nice lacing as it fell. Color was an oh-so-slightly hazy Amber to Deep Amber/Light Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13). Nose smelled of pine sap and peaches, although my bottle was not marked as any of the fruit varietals. It made for an interesting & tantalizing scent & I was anxious to taste it. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was very hoppy with grapefruit & pine in the forefront, but I was still getting an underlying flavor of peaches in heavy syrup. I really loved CANned peaches as a child and preferred them over almost everything else. Finish had a pleasant bitterness, partially of the aforementioned pine & grapefruit hops, but also that bitterness that comes of getting too close to the peach pit. Jeez-O, man, I could really come to fall in love with this!

Nice hazy look. Ripe melon, citrus, alcohol and A slight malt background dominate the nose. Smells decent. Kind of a malt and pine mix with a really carbonated and watery crisp feel. Can't decide if it tastes a little like cat piss or it's half decent. It teeters. Maybe a bit
out of balance. I think it might be carmalized malts like you find in some beers. Side note: I remember the "Last Chance" being a bar in Montoursville PA that my family had been to while traveling to visit family when I was in my youth.

I have enjoyed several from Weyerbacher and their Simcoe Double IPA (unfiltered) is one of my favorites so I had high expectations for this. Hmmm. Color and smell are good but taste is kind of 'not aligned'. It's almost as though the ingredients are not well matched or engineered or something. I'm disappointed. Bitter, tangy, not orchestrated well.